Printer&#39;s furniture and mounting board



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c. c. WHITLING ET AL PRINTERS FURNITURE AND MOUNTING BOARD Filed Sept. 4, 1923 Patented Jan. 13, 1925.

H'TE D STATE or LONDON,

ENGLAND.

PRINTERS FURNITURE Application filed Septcmber To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, COURTNEY CLARKE VVI-IIT'LING and WILLIAM ALFRED Grrsrnur, both subjects of the King of Great Britain, and both residing at 339A Harrow Road, Paddington, London, W. 9, England, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in or Relating to Printers Furniture and Mounting Boards, of which the following is a specification. g

This invention relates to printers furniture and has for its object to provide units of furniture for various uses which units are each made in two relatively sliding parts, so as to be extensible and adjustable, the sliding surfaces between the parts being vertical tosecure maximum strength.

The units are of various suitable lengths and widths and lessthan type height and one part of each unit is preferably formed or provided with a scale so that its extension from the other part can readily be ascertained,v so forming a register or indicator for the length of packing required between the two parts of the unit. They are made from any suitable material such as wood, metal for example aluminium or brass and may be shaped by machining, casting or otherwise.

-The furniture can be designed for any suitable purposes, including its use with and for mounting boards and as side or foot sticks in locking up type, blocks and the like in chases.

In the drawings F ig. l is a. perspective view of the two parts of one form of furniture unit made according to the invent-ion, shown separated.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the parts assembled and partly extended.

Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, of another form of the invention.

Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 1, of another form and Fig. 5 is a plan of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 shows a view of a chase with various forms of furniture made according to the invention, locked up therein.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the unit of furniture shown therein is made up from a T shaped part a and a U shaped part b, the centre bar 0 of the part a being the same length, height and width as, and a sliding AND Ii/LOUNTING BOAR-D.

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fit in, the slot cl of the part 7) and the outer surfaces of the part 7) being parallel and the same width as the head of the part a. c is a-scale on the bar 0 of the part a, which may be marked off in ems or other suitable graduations commencing from the head and by this means when the parts are extended as in Fig. 2. the extension can be seen and the required packing inserted in the spaces f and 5 to render the furniture incompressible from end to end and to present a solid face or wall to the material being locked up. The packing may be of ordinary quads, quotations, clumps or other suitable material.

F 3 shows two similar L shaped members having heads m equal to the combined widths of the stems. the two L members forming a unit of furniture. One of these is formed or provided with the scale 0 and in the figure packing pieces a are shown in position.

In use, as a means for mounting stereoplates, the height of the units of furniture such as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, is such that. plus the thickness of the plate. the

surfarc is type high. Any number of extended pieces of furniture may be used to make up a mount of desired size, using wooden packing or distance pieces or the like in place of metal quads, clumps or the like. The whole is locked up in a chase, the stereoplate being fixed to the wooden distance pieces by brads.

Fig. 6 shows eight extended pieces of fur niture, six according to Figs. 1 and 2 and two according to Fig. 3, with wooden distancepieces locked up in a chase 7? to form amount, for a stereoplate.

The extendible unit of furniture shown in Figs. '4. and is suitable for use as a printers side or foot stick. This comprises two L shaped members, the two tongues g and '1" of which have vertical surfaces adapted to slide in contact and the heads 2? and a, of which are adapted to come into contact with the ends of the tongue in the non-extended position. The tongue Q is formed or provided with a scale S to indicate the packing required. The outer vertical surface of the L shaped member having the tongue 1" and the corresponding vertical surface of the head 25 are not parallel with the surface on the opposite side of the unit of furniture, but is formed at a slight extendible stick is shown locking up the eight furniture units in the chase 79, the stick m at the top being of ordinary construction.

It will be seen that an extendible stick made according to the invention can in stantly be adjusted to the length of any 'forme within the extendible limits of the complete stick and that the packing required can be seen at a glance on the scale S. Q

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure as our invention in United States of America is a 1. Extendible printers furniture, cornprising two relatively sliding members of less than type height, having vertical surfaces the full depth of the furniture from top to bottom, in sliding contact and packing material retained between a suitably shaped portions of the two parts, to render the extended furniture solid in the direction of thrust.

-2. Extendible printers furniture, comprising two relatively sliding members of less than type height, having Vertical surfaces the full depth of the furniture from top to bottom, in sliding contact, each-of such members comprising a strip portion and an end portion at right angles'to such strip, the end portion-on each member being adapted to project over the extremity of the strip of the other member, and packing material retained between the end portions and the extremities to render the extended furniture solid in the direction of thrust.

3. Extendible printers furniture, com- 4 prising two relatively sliding members of less than type height, having vertical surfaces the full depth of the furniture from top to bottom, in sliding contact, one of such members comprising strip portion, with an end portion projecting on either side at right angles thereto to form a T shaped member and the other member having twoparallel strip portions connected together by an end portion at right angles thereto to form a U shaped member,

the strip of the T shaped member being the same length, height and width as and a sliding fit in the vertical slot in the U shaped member, and packing material retained between the end portions and the extremities to render the extended furniture solid in the direction of thrust for the purposesset forth. 7

4. Extendible printers furniture, com prising two relatively sliding members of less than type height, having vertical surfaces the full dept-h of the furniture from top to bottom, in sliding contact, 7 each of said members comprising at least one strip portion and an end portion, projecting over the extremity of the strip portion on the other member, packing material re-.

tained between the end portions and the extremities to render the extended furniture solid-in the direction of thrust, and means for indicating the amount by which the two members have been extended to show the length of packing'for the purposes set forth.

5. Extendible printers furniture, comprising two relatively sliding members of less than type height, having vertical surfaces the full depth of the furniture from top to bottom, in sliding contact, each of said members comprising at least one strip portion and an end portion, projecting'over the extremity of the strip portion on the other member, packing material retained between the end portions and the extremities to render the extended furniture SOllCl 1n the directlon of thrust, and a scale on one part for indicating the amount by. which the two members have been extended 1 T to show the length of packing.

In witness whereof We affix our signatures. r

COURTNEY CLARKE WHITLING. 7 WILLIAM ALFRED GITSHAM. 

